The Kumano Brush Festival
September 23rd 2005 Kumano is a small town of about 25 000 people, located about an hour away from Hiroshima City. In this small town, 80% of all calligraphy brushes in Japan are produced. Every year, the town has a brush festival, in which people go to "honour" old brushes and calligraphy is demonstrated.
I originally found out about this festival from one of my students, who is from Kumano, and was doing a spe
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